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March 31. 1925; 5 1,531,455

J. E. RUSSELL GAME Fi led Jan. 25 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 E1 EJ1- A EJEDEF//5 46 5 4/;

March 31. 1925. 1,531,455

- J. E. RUSSELL GAME Filed Jan. 25, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 wu-Mm flak/J i5 IE RUSSELL (lbtoimwo Patented Mar. 31, 1925.

UNITED STATES JOHN EDWARD RUSSELL, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAME.

Application filed January 25, 1924. Serial No. 688,531.

To all whom it may coneera:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. RUssncnL, a citizen of Great Britain,residing at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGames; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription-of the invent-ion, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention aims to provide a'simple and inexpensive, yet a highlyamusing game embodying aball-receiver int-o which balls of celluloid orother suitable material are tossed, provision being made whereby theballs will descend from the receiver and roll onto separate playingfields. It is intended that the fields shall have independent colors andthat the balls shall be correspondingly colored, so that when a ball ofone color reaches a field of the same color, a score is made. Instead ofusing colors, letters, num bers or other means may be provided toidentify the balls with the fields.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide novel means fordischarging the balls from the fields and conducting'them to a commonpoint. I I

VVit-h the foregoing in view, the invention resides in the novel subjectmatter hereinafter described and claimed, the description beingsupplemented by the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the game constructed in accordance withmy invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view.

Figure 3 is a central vertical sectional view.

Figure 4 is a sectional view through the balLrecc-iver showing aslightly different form of construction.

Figiire 5 is a vertical section on of Fig. 4..

Figure 6 is a detail horizontal section on line (3-6 of Fig. 4.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the numeral 1 designatesa flat, inclined board suitably supported upon an appropriate base 2,said board having a convex lower edge provided with a front wall 3. Fromthis wall, a plurality of partition walls 4: converge upwardly along theupper side of the board 1 and segregate the l t r int-0 a p ur lity of spara e fields line 5-5 which may be designated by different colors, bynumbers, by letters as indicated in Fig. 2, or in any other desiredmanner, it being sufficient that the fields are separately designatedand that the balls 5 used in playing the game (Fig. 2) besimilarlydesignated,'

so that when any. ball rolls upon its corresponding field, a score maybe registered for the person using said ball.

Rising from the rear end of the board 1,

are a number of vertical passage members 6, support a ball-receiver 7which is pref erably four-sided and of substantially funnel-shape. Therear side wall of this receiver is faceted as indicated at 8, so thatwhen the ballsare thrown against the facets, they will bounce innumerous directions before descending from the receiver through one ofthe passage members 6. The facets 8 do not extend entirely to the lowerend of the back wall of the receiver 7, and saidlower end of this wall,as well as the lower ends of the other walls are preferably of slightlyless incline than the major portions of said walls, as indicated at 9,providing additional bouncing surfaces for the balls. Suitable braces 11may be provided for the receiver 7, oneof these braces being shdwnconnected with the portion 9 of the back wall of said receiver, whilethe other is connected with said back wall at a higher point, the lowerends of both braces being secured to the base '2. I

I prefer to provide the front wall 3, with ball outlets 12 from theindividual fields, and gates 13 are employed to normally close theseoutlets. In the present showing, thegates 13 are all carried by aresilient wire 14L which extends along the front wall 3 and is rotatablymounted in appropriatebearings 15, one end of said wire having anappropriate handle 16, by means of which it may be turned tosimultaneously open or close all of the gates 13. A trough 17 has beenshown in front of the wall 3 to receive the balls from the openings 12,when the te 13 are p n d and the beam of his

